US Senator Chuck Grassley obtained internal documents from an informant that 665 FBI employees resigned after being involved in sexual misconduct investigations to avoid receiving final disciplinary letters.
According to the network “PBSGrassley said the whistleblower – who was not named – filed a report with the Department of Internal Justice that indicated employees had left between 2004 and 2020 and included 45 senior employees.
“The allegations and tapes paint a shameful picture of the abuses that women within the FBI have had to live with for many years,” Grassley wrote in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Grassley’s office said Department of Justice officials prepared the report following an Associated Press article in 2020 that exposed allegations of sexual behavior among senior office officials.
The report states that 665 employees left after “alleged misconduct,” but did not specify this as sexual misconduct, although the document is titled as such.
The Associated Press investigation that appeared to create the report concluded that the office chose to displace those facing the charges or allow them to retire.
Grassley also said she received a second whistleblower paper that analyzes Ray’s implementation of a zero tolerance policy for sexual misconduct and details “inconsistent provisions”.
The document reads: “Recent cases of sexual misconduct seem to prove it [مكتب المسؤولية المهنية] This directive has led to seemingly arbitrary sanctions and differentiated treatment, which could jeopardize the consistency, fairness and due process of the FBI’s disciplinary system. “
“Congress is obligated to conduct an objective and independent review of the failures of the Justice Department and the FBI and to determine the accuracy of the data contained in the documents so that the American people know and understand what changes, if any, are been done to solve these significant problems, ”Grassley wrote in his letter.
The FBI said in a statement that employees who commit sexual harassment have no place in the office, pointing to new resources such as a 24/7 hotline, and said it is working with lawmakers on the matter.
